“We need to keep learning and remembering all our lives,” they write. “Getting ahead at work takes mastery of job skills and difficult colleagues … If you’re good at learning, you have an advantage in life.”

Unfortunately, lots of the techniques for learning that we pick up in school don’t help with long-term recall — like cramming or highlighting.

To get over these bad habits, we scoured “Make It Stick” for learning tips.

But be warned: If it’s difficult, it’s good thing.

“Learning is deeper and more durable when it’s effortful,” the authors write. “Learning that’s easy is like writing in sand, here today and gone tomorrow.”